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Prisons, Camps, Staffs, and Number of Prisoners on 31st March, 1909.

Prisons, Camps, Staffs, and Number of Prisoners on 31st March, 1919.

Health Statistics. The returns of sic 'kness given in Table A show that the daily average number on the sick-list in all the prisons and prison institutions of the Dominion in 1918 was 24-61, compared with 16-71 in 1917, a difference of 7-93 in favour of the earlier year. The large percentage increase thus shown is accounted for by the influenza epidemic, by which all the larger prisons were attacked with considerable virulence. From our records in November last I find that at Auckland and Invercargill nearly one hundred prisoners were sick at one time in each institution, while half the staff were also attacked. The position was not quite so acute in the other prisons, but all except those situated in, conntrv districts suffered to some extent. Those officers who remained unaffected by the disease had a very strenuous time while the epidemic was at its height, and many of them performed valuable work in caring for the sick and in organizing pla.ns of relief. In both directions they were ably assisted by some of the prisoners, who worked night and day as nurses and assistants, and did not spare themselves in succouring those who were attacked. Some of our best prisoner assistants were men serving long sentences for very serious offences, one having a life sentence Deaths : There were, nineteen deaths in the prisons during the year 1918. Of those, thirteen were due to influenza and one to suicide, while one died after his transfer to a mental hospital, and two prisoners were executed.

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